Cleaning up after installing the development version from the repository

[snhansen]

Description

While waiting for a new pre-release build to be available, I decided to try building the newest development version directly from the repository as I was needing some of the fixes which isn't yet available in the newest pre-release build. I ran into some issues and decided to delete the install and simply wait for the pre-release build to become available.

However, when I now run quarto preview I get an "Internal Server Error" in my browser and the CLI shows

Browse at http://localhost:3820/filename/test-123.html
ERROR: 500 (Internal Error): The extension Poster is incompatible with this quarto version.

Extension requires: >=99.9.0
Quarto version: 1.6.32

The rendering works fine, but it's the browser preview that fails. Since it says Extension requires: >=99.9.0 I take it that I have some leftovers from the repo-build and I'm wondering how I can clean up after this?

[mcanouil]

What's the "Poster" extension? (I am not aware of it https://m.canouil.dev/quarto-extensions/)

Because this error/warning is usually when quarto-required: ">=99.9.0" is set in the extension.
The Quarto version is the version of Quarto

[snhansen]

No idea. It's not something I've installed nor is it something that's in the project directory. The above is a simple "Hello World" .qmd with format: html.

[mcanouil]

Maybe https://github.com/quarto-ext/typst-templates/tree/main/poster

Are you sure you did not set quarto-required somewhere? Document metadata header? Project _quarto.yml?

Does the error appear if you create in another location a new project such as quarto create project website?

[snhansen]

I just tried rendering from a different location which worked, thanks!

Turns out that in the parent directory of the project directory was a .quarto folder which I deleted and next time I rendered it was recreated and the issue was resolved.

[cscheid]

Thanks for the additional info. This feels like a Quarto bug.

Do you also have a _quarto.yml file on the folder that has the .quarto directory?

[snhansen]

Yes, there was a _quarto.yml in that folder with the following content:

format: 
  revealjs:
    slide-number: true
    smaller: true
    width: 1100
    chalkboard:
      theme: whiteboard

It wasn't meant to have anything to do with the project folder in which the error occurred, but was a left over from some previous tests. It might have interfered though.